An Alternate Budget Plan from a CPS Parent

I’ve been trying to take some needed time off from CPS data for just a few weeks (first time in Continue reading →

The FY14 Chicago Public School Budget: Central Office Expenses

Got a quick glance at the newly released 2014 budget today and right away something looked a little odd. Budgets Continue reading →

How is the CPS Utilization formula like a dose of Tylenol?

This is a follow-up to the last blog post re: “seats available” at Level 1 & Level 2 CPS schools**… Continue reading →

Which Level 1 & Level 2 CPS Elementary Schools have seats?**

**According to CPS Utilization Formula. The results may surprise you. I’ve discussed before how schools that use a “once a Continue reading →

CPS Schools with Self-Contained Classrooms Penalized under Formula

The specific case of Trumball School, and the explanation of how the CPS Utilization Formula penalizes CPS schools slated for Continue reading →

SchoolCuts: Taking a closer look at school closures in Chicago

Keep an eye on SchoolCuts.org later today and tomorrow for updates that provide additional data sets and features to help Continue reading →

Where did 100,000 empty CPS seats come from? Part 2

(Read Part I here.) We have extra and empty seats in District 299 because every CPS CEO from Arne Duncan Continue reading →

Where did these 100,000 empty CPS seats come from? Part I

That is a lot of empty seats in CPS schools. That is more than twice the number of seats within Continue reading →